From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Warren Subject: Re: adding aliases to mmc ... again Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 10:01:53 -0600 Message-ID: <537F70F1.8010608@wwwdotorg.org> References: <1400772623-8390-1-git-send-email-s.hauer@pengutronix.de> <537E22E3.3010601@wwwdotorg.org> <20140522182134.GD15686@pengutronix.de> <537E4EAF.5000309@wwwdotorg.org> <20140523092359.GG15686@pengutronix.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from avon.wwwdotorg.org ([70.85.31.133]:50583 "EHLO avon.wwwdotorg.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753251AbaEWQB4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 May 2014 12:01:56 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20140523092359.GG15686@pengutronix.de> Sender: linux-mmc-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org To: Sascha Hauer Cc: linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org, Dirk Behme , Fabio Estevam , ptx@pengutronix.de On 05/23/2014 03:23 AM, Sascha Hauer wrote: ... > Speaking of which my preferred solution is another one. As a bootloader > developer it really annoys me that I don't have the possibility to tell > the kernel to boot a particular device. What I really want to do is to > pass a devicetree phandle to the kernel for the rootfs (Or a device path > for the EFI/ACPI guys). This would solve a whole lot of problems here. Why not implement a root= kernel cmdline option that provides exactly that?